Top 100 His Thoughts Quotes
#1. The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler
#2. Welcome," the man said in utter contradiction to his urban street clothes. He eyed the vibrator in Cooper's hand but whatever his thoughts were on a guy wielding a vibrator, he kept to himself. "I'll get some candles.
Jill Shalvis
#3. His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
Juliet Marillier
#4. When a man is occupied with striving to satisfy his desire and ambition, all his thoughts must be mortal.
Timaeus
#5. If I had superpower, it would be infiltration. I would infiltrate his mind so I could see every single one of his thoughts.
Colleen Hoover
#6. He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. When a man is anxious he cannot pray with faith; when he is troubled about the world, he cannot serve his Master, his thoughts are serving himself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#8. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.
Edward Hoagland
#9. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.
Mary McGrory
#10. He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?
Alexis De Tocqueville
#11. Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.
Donna Lynn Hope
#13. It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself. His face laughed; his thoughts did not. The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone. Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it.
Victor Hugo
#14. I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#15. An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson
#16. Just because something feels better than anything else," he said in his thoughts, "that don't mean it's good for you.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
As in a foundering ship.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#18. Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
Og Mandino
#19. So Merik embraced the rage. He let it course through each of his breaths. Each of his thoughts. He could use the anger to help his hungry city. To protect his dying people.
For although the holiest might fall - and Merik had fallen far, indeed - they could also claw their way back up again.
Susan Dennard
#20. An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product.
Debasish Mridha
#21. A human being is not mindless or mentally deficient without language, but he is severely restricted in the range of his thoughts, confined, in effect, to an immediate, small world.
Oliver Sacks
#22. His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
Lois Lowry
#23. An actor in a playwright's hide," he said sadly. "I'll never not be vain." "Oh, well. It's you," she said. "You're desperate for the love of strangers. To be seen." "You see me," he said, and he heard the echo with his thoughts a minute before and was pleased. "I do," she said. "Now.
Lauren Groff
#24. Sometimes he feels like he can't breathe.
Sometimes his thoughts come so fast he has to find one perfect memory.
Cling to it.
A life raft.
Blake Crouch
#25. And his thoughts were like entangled black threads. He could never find the end to them.
Boris Artzybasheff
#26. I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H.P. Lovecraft
#27. His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well:
Susan Forward
#28. A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Mo Yan
#29. He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject
what a burden his life was.
Philip Pullman
#30. My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from inside, from his thoughts, from his soul; and nobody could take that from him.
Teodor Flonta
#31. He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.'
~pg 139
Mitch Albom
#32. There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#33. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.
Dixon Edward Hoste
#34. I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.
Oddny Eir
#35. Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.
Mother Teresa
#36. For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell
#37. The Achiever says his Thoughts led him to Success and the Criminal says his Thoughts led him to Crime. Everybody thinks, but what we Think determines our Destiny.-RVM
R.v.m.
#38. his thoughts dwelt upon the past rather than upon the future; that he read much history, and felt specially drawn to certain periods whose spirit he understood instinctively as though he had lived in them;
Algernon Blackwood
#39. Good God, Rachel, cant you go five minutes ... sweet sticky hell on a stick!' the demon exclaimed, his thoughts reeling from anger to concern as he realized I was hopped up on something.
Kim Harrison
#40. The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;
the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
Garth Stein
#43. An invisible gas clouds his thoughts, exhaust from a bus left with its engine running in the middle of his brain.
Michael Chabon
#44. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.
Tim Yarbrough
#45. Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again.
John Steinbeck
#46. Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.
Mel Odom
#47. It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.
Thomas Mann
#48. The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.
Marcel Proust
#49. An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.
Marcel Proust
#50. There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.
Kathryn Worth
#51. God help me, I do care about you. Gently hugging her against his chest, he tenderly moved her hair away from her angelic face. Seeing her sleep, peaceful and trusting, his thoughts of waking
her for his desires were quickly replaced.
Aleatha Romig
#52. Dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?"
Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.
Rick Riordan
#53. If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.
John Owen
#54. I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.
Felix Mendelssohn
#55. The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy's face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts.
Markus Zusak
#56. Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts
Jose Saramago
#57. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
Carlos Castaneda
#58. He was a terrible communicator and didn't know how to sort out his thoughts on a daily basis, let alone provide long-term corporate direction. But
John R. O'Donnell
#59. He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [ ... ] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.
Christopher Paolini
#60. As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#62. The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.
Dan Groat
#63. There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.
Steven Hardesty
#64. Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#65. All his thoughts were running riot, like rowdy children, and he wanted them to stop and leave him alone. He
Phaedra Patrick
#66. He ran a finger along the bottom side of her breast as if it helped clarify his thoughts. All it did for her was heat up her insides and make her want him even more.
Jennifer Ashley
#67. A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.
Stephen Charnock
#69. But even the tough, capable centurions gave Marcus speculative glances, as if seeking out his thoughts on their predicament. Marcus returned the glances with nothing but crisp salutes, letting them see the First Spear proceeding with business as usual.
Jim Butcher
#70. The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough.
Thomas Hardy
#71. Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.
Jeffrey Kluger
#72. After dunking his thoughts in a quick cold shower, he got his mind back on track.
Tracey Alvarez
#73. Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
Hermann Hesse
#74. He's like a deer; I don't want to make any sudden movements and startle his thoughts away.
Sandy Hall
#75. A Person is Not Big or Small from Height or Weight.
It's the Thoughts of a Person that Makes him Small or Big.
You can Assess a Person only from Heights of his Thoughts ...
Saurabh Dudeja
#76. Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
#77. Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. "Doesn't matter now," he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.
~William Drexler the Third
Gwenn Wright
#78. When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.
J. Budziszewski
#79. The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.
Giacomo Leopardi
#80. The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
Herbert Spencer
#81. No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.
John Calvin
#82. He'd meant to pray, meant to fix his thoughts on something beautiful, like the future and the new world and the woman he would be sharing it with.
But like every important, defining moment in his life, it had all roared by too fast.
Blake Crouch
#83. Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at leastleast like a tightly coiled spring.
Lyn Ducoty
#85. You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.
Linda Sue Park
#86. His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love.
Ankita Singhal
#87. God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
John Stott
#88. A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
Carlos Castaneda
#89. A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts
Alan Watts
#90. Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires
if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.
Ernest Holmes
#91. I want to take a trip to Shakespeare's brain and vacation there with his thoughts may be I also start writing about twisted love and betrayals.
Megha Khare
#92. His life had been ripped away from him without his being able to fight against it. That was difficult enough, but to know that the one woman that consumed his thoughts day and night, the one woman who captured his attention with a mere smile would never be his ...
It was beyond cruel.
Donna Grant
#93. Books are people,' smiled Miss Marks. 'In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.
D.E. Stevenson
#94. A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Francis Bacon
#95. The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
#96. The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#97. On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#98. His thoughts should have kept him up all night, but with his friends this close Neil couldn't worry about anything.
Nora Sakavic
#99. He goes along just as a water lily
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
Unweighed down by passion or intensity
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
And he finds a home in me
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap
Fiona Apple
#100. A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.
Jarod Kintz
